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package org.tigris.jasmincc.framework.namespace;

import java.io.*;

import org.tigris.jasmincc.framework.namespace.implementation.SimpleNamespaceManager;

/**
 * Namespace manager interface. Offer a mapping between classpathes and phyiscal
 * file system locations.
 * 
 * @author Sam Huang
 * @see SimpleNamespaceManager
 */
public interface NamespaceManager {
	void addGrammarBase(String namespaceName, String physicalLocation)
			throws FileNotFoundException;

	Namespace addNamespace(String namespaceName) throws Exception;

	File getFileByGrammarName(String name) throws Exception;

	Namespace getNamespace(String name);

	boolean isAnInterface(String name);

	void setDefaultGrammarBase(String defaultGrammarBase);
}
